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• Publisher of MindBodyRefresh (www.mindbodyrefresh.com), a personal blog dedicated to sharing my knowledge and experience with living a healthier, happier life.• Business and technology consultant providing project/program management and startup infrastructure development services. Currently consulting for private family and charitable foundations, helping to run global virtual corporations. Responsibilities include day-to-day operational oversight, infrastructure setup, process development, and workflow automation. Led implementation of online grants application processing systems. Past clients include Barnes & Noble Digital Products, Irish Technology Leadership Group and Irish Innovation Center.• Creator and publisher of Mind List (TM) -- an essential, easy-to-use to do, list and password manager for Android devices.

Cupertino, Ca

Working to help people achieve their personal health and fitness goals as part of their overall work-life balance plan.

Santa Clara, Ca

Consultant at Digital Products/Nook business unit.

General Manager for start up focused on launching and selling one of our MarketMinds inventions called CubeGuard -- a simple but elegant office productivity tool for preventing interruptions and communicating availability status to your coworkers.

Co-founder and managing partner at a diversified holding company engaged in intellectual property, new product and business development. We are developing and implementing infrastructure to bring great product and web business ideas to market.

• P&L responsibility for global sales and delivery of software and services for handheld/PDA and smartphone products to drive loyalty/customer connectivity, enhanced customer experience, product differentiation, and incremental revenue. Grew top line sales 25% Y/Y to $5.4M from sales of software applications, service subscriptions, ebooks, and online advertising. Identified and developed new business segments and solutions. Helped drive key partnerships and agreements with software developers, ecommerce providers and carriers.

• Managed central services team covering creative design and web production, business systems, and reporting. Drove forecasting and planning for over $100M per year Palm Direct eCommerce and Retail businesses.• Managed WW Ops Business Systems group responsible for business process, decision support, systems and KPI/metrics development/reengineering for Global Manufacturing, Operations, Service & Repairs, Customer Relations, Sales/Channel Operations and Direct Sales/E-commerce. Provided global and cross-functional program management, organization planning, project scheduling and coordination support to Palm/Handspring Merger Integration Program Office.• Acted as internal “Business Management Consultant” and routinely performed needs analyses, requirements definition, ROI justifications, solution/vendor selections, program management, Executive level updates/presentations, and other critical business engineering.• Program managed deployment of global CRM system, wireless business infrastructure, global Oracle Order Management solution, and other core business processes and systems.• Co-architected wireless business infrastructure to enable direct sales of smartphones, including: gathering, processing and delivery/exchange of handset network locking, software/customization, activation and other data. Interfaced with key wireless partners such as Sprint, T-mobile, Cingular, ATT Wireless, and Rogers ATT.• Led design and deployment of global CRM system (PeopleSoft/Vantive) which helped reduce support costs over 25% through more effective and efficient customer/contact management, support call and email tracking, unified support knowledge base management and web self help.

Microsoft Certified Solution Provider (MCSP) providing database-enabled web, electronic commerce, and computer systems/networking infrastructure design and development solutions. Specialized in business consulting and solution delivery to support fast-paced growth, global presence, and SOHO/mobile workers. Customers included Polycom, Sanmina, Automotion, Formosan Magazine Press, USWeb, iGeneration, and Easyphone/Altitude Software.

Helped start-up and manage day-to-day operations including Finance, HR/Recruiting, Facilities and General Administration for various business units including Professional Services, Online Auctions, Banner Exchange, and Online Personals.Provided professional services in design and deployment of dynamic, database-enabled Intranets and Internet Commerce sites. Clients included Netscape, NetManage, Global Village, and Stanford GSB.Helped launch and run AuctionBoard, an early leader in web auctions, which ran up Gross Merchandise Sales of $250K per month within 5 months of operation.

Responsible for starting up Manufacturing/Operations and transferring new products from Engineering to Production. Developed Product Data Sheets, Chip Qualification/Test Plans, and Manufacturing/Operating Plans. Helped estrablish critical baseline IT / Business Systems. Helped developed Business Plan/Prospectus to raise $7M in Series C Funding. Assisted in development of all Corporate Marcom and presentation material.

Led Business & Information Technology Engineering group, which focused on strategic IT and corporate process development/re-engineering. Developed Data Warehousing solutions; Helped re-engineer and streamline forecasting through production planning/build process; Developed marketing tools to analyze ASP trends, product mix profiles, and shipment/backlog detail to help improve forecast accuracy; Designed and implemented all factory layout from inception and managed production line move to new, higher volume facility; Deployed shop floor tracking and reporting system to enable Build-To-Order processing and quality improvement.

Responsible for release and ongoing support of workstation and server products with annual revenues totaling $40M. Led multifunction team and coordinated resources to transfer products from Engineering to Production, ensuring all Manufacturing Release criteria were met.Supported new product introductions, improved process flow and product quality, developed production line fixtures, and participated in assembly subcontracting efforts.

Ms, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Joint I.E.-E.M. Program

Bs, General Engineering

Graduated with High Distinction. Institute for the Advancement of Engineering (IAE) Outstanding Engineering Student - 1989.

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